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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Oh, this is balderdash.
If we're going to bash the Pope it belongs in the religion forum.

The site says something like, “(obviously he means the catholic church)”. It it were obvious, why would he need to point it out? But be that as it may, if you mean to criticize Catholic ecclesiology,it might be good to know the official teaching, rather than trumping up “obvious” but misleading and imprecise notions.

It's not hard. The Catechism and “Dominus Iesus” are online.

People like to say that IHS never explicitly denounced abortion or same sex marriage. Similarly some might say there is little explicit about the Church in the NT.

And the explanation is the same. Just as abortion and same sex marriage were so outlandish that Jesus didn't need to comment on them, so the idea of a society with a hierarchy is all over the NT. The few in the upper room at the last supper or the Easter appearances, the disciples sitting around Jesus at the Sermon on the mount, the gift of the Pentecostal Spirit to Mary and the twelve, the whole purpose of Galatians: to explain the deep meaning about why the uncircumcised are to be admitted into ... the Church, the “have this mind” passage of Philippians starts with urging the members of the Church community to serve one another....

And 1 Cor 12 is about the different gifts and ministries in the community. It's all about “the Apostles’ teaching and FELLOWSHIP, the breaking of bread, and the prayers.”

Yes, the individual and personal relationship with our Lord is critical. But the community is there from the beginning, first as our Lord is “numbered with the transgressors” on Jordan's bank and then as he calls the disciples. I don't think we can find a lone Christian in the NT. Possibly the best candidate, Mary, goes immediately to the hill country where she and Elisabeth join in prayer and praise.

90 posted on 09/24/2015 7:23:45 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
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To: Mad Dawg

No one is bashing the pope. We are having fellowship and speaking God’s Truth. God is at work here and He is NOT PC!


101 posted on 09/24/2015 7:29:27 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR)
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